Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer...
...that the last geographical frontiers of the U. S. have been reached and exploited, Harry Hopkins believes: "The new frontier is idle men, money and machines, and all the resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or 13 million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only Government can supply when business is in the doldrums." Henceforth, in short, the Government should subsidize citizens who need to start or recoup their fortunes on the frontier of work-not-offered-by-private-enterprise...
...same. Challenger Armstrong sprang out of his corner and in a split second was toe-to-toe and chest-to-chest with his opponent. For 15 rounds he pounded ring-wise Barney Ross with relentless fury-1.200 punches in 45 minutes. Barney Ross, dripping blood and teetering on his helpless legs, refused to quit, went the full 15 rounds rather than have his first knockout chalked against...
...much of the blood tests." As for the widow, whose name Dr. Bundesen kept private, 'I think she has a preference [between the men]. But she's leaving the decision to me." Meanwhile, Chicago, whose relief funds are exhausted, had on its hands the jobless men, the helpless twins, the widow and her eight other children...
...explanation of why scientists remarry more quickly than others is obvious (TIME, May 9). Scientists are the most helpless of men. Twenty-five years lived in the faculty end of a university town leave no doubts in my mind. So-when his wife is gone-by death or desire-the scientist gets him a new one-or he can't work...